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Re: To punch your tag....

Unread postby VA5326 » Mon Sep 28, 2015 5:11 am

I've lost a few in my day. Personally, I keep hunting.


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Re: To punch your tag....

Unread postby ozzz » Mon Sep 28, 2015 5:16 am

However, last year my buck was completely eaten by coyotes when I found him and did put my tag on him even though I could have left him and kept hunting.
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Re: To punch your tag....

Unread postby JoeRE » Mon Sep 28, 2015 5:44 am

Thanks for the thoughts guys. It definitely depends a lot on different situations.

Stash I came up with the east/west split just because the only hunters I ever heard talk about punching their tag on a lost animal were from out west, but I will admit I don't know many western hunters, I have heard of it maybe half a dozen times that I can think of.

As far as lost animals go...every experienced hunter has lost an animal or two, but I have noticed some loose far more than others, they don't seem to grow out of it routinely happening. My first decade of bowhunting I lost quite a few. In the last 8 years I lost one deer, a buck I gutshot in 2013 and inexplicably could not find. I am proud of that and try to keep that average up.

ozzz wrote:However, last year my buck was completely eaten by coyotes when I found him and did put my tag on him even though I could have left him and kept hunting.


You could have? I always assumed when you found a deer you lost you were obligated to tag it even if the meat was spoiled or yotes got it...but thinking about it I bet most state regs don't even cover this topic. I do think in your case, if you asked a warden, it would be a good show of discretion to tell you to keep hunting since yotes simply beat you to the meat.
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Re: To punch your tag....

Unread postby Dewey » Mon Sep 28, 2015 6:47 am

Mike Foss has a $100 wounding fee at NWO. I think that is a great policy and makes guys think hard about taking marginal shots.

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Re: To punch your tag....

Unread postby Zap » Mon Sep 28, 2015 7:00 am

Marginal shots should be passed up. Having deer close and not shooting because no 'good' shot opportunity presents itself is part of the game.
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Re: To punch your tag....

Unread postby rancid crabtree » Mon Sep 28, 2015 9:04 am

Since I hunt for meat rather than horns, and because I have several tags in my pocket, I Continue to hunt. My goal is to supply my family with the meat we will use for the upcoming year, I have lost very very few deer in nearly 40 years of bowhunting. It happens, this is not a perfect world.
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Re: To punch your tag....

Unread postby PK_ » Mon Sep 28, 2015 10:13 am

If I had a tag I would not punch it unless I recovered the animal. But with no tags and 2/day limit on deer all season long, pretty easy decision, I keep hunting...
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